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Exploring the Role of Simulation Training in Improving Surgical Skills Among Residents: A Narrative Review

The role of simulation in medical education is crucial to the development of surgeons' skills. Surgical simulation can be used to improve surgical skills in a secure and risk-free environment. Animal models, simulated patients, virtual reality, and mannequins are some types of surgical simulati...

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Autores principales: Cardoso, Swizel Ann, Suyambu, Jenisha, Iqbal, Javed, Cortes Jaimes, Diana Carolina, Amin, Aamir, Sikto, Jarin Tasnim, Valderrama, Melissa, Aulakh, Simranjit Singh, Ramana, Venkata, Shaukat, Behram, Patel, Tirath
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10549779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37799263
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44654
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author Cardoso, Swizel Ann
Suyambu, Jenisha
Iqbal, Javed
Cortes Jaimes, Diana Carolina
Amin, Aamir
Sikto, Jarin Tasnim
Valderrama, Melissa
Aulakh, Simranjit Singh
Ramana, Venkata
Shaukat, Behram
Patel, Tirath
author_facet Cardoso, Swizel Ann
Suyambu, Jenisha
Iqbal, Javed
Cortes Jaimes, Diana Carolina
Amin, Aamir
Sikto, Jarin Tasnim
Valderrama, Melissa
Aulakh, Simranjit Singh
Ramana, Venkata
Shaukat, Behram
Patel, Tirath
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description The role of simulation in medical education is crucial to the development of surgeons' skills. Surgical simulation can be used to improve surgical skills in a secure and risk-free environment. Animal models, simulated patients, virtual reality, and mannequins are some types of surgical simulation. As a result, feedback encourages students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to focus on improvement. Healthcare simulation is a strong educational instrument, and the main goal of this is to give the students an opportunity to do a practical application of what they have learned through theory. Before taking it to the patients, they will already have certain tools they have previously acquired during the practice. This makes it easier for students to identify the knowledge gaps that they must fill to improve patient outcomes. Moreover, simulation brings a wonderful opportunity for students to acquire skills, gain confidence, and experience success before working with real patients, especially when their clinical exposure is limited. The use of simulation to teach technical skills to surgical trainees has become more prevalent. The cost of setting up a simulation lab ranges from $100,000 to $300,000. There are several ways to evaluate the effectiveness of simulation-based surgical training. Repetitive surgical simulation training can improve speed and fluidity in general surgical skills in comparison to conventional training. Few previous studies compared learners who received structured simulation training to a group of trainees who did not receive any simulation training in single-center randomized control research. Significantly faster and less time-consuming skill proficiency was noticeable in simulated trainees. Despite being anxious in the operating room for the first time, simulated trainees completed the surgery on time, demonstrating the effectiveness of surgical simulation training. Traditional surgical training involves senior-surgeon supervision in the operating room. In simulation-based training, the trainees have full control over clinical scenarios and settings; however, guidance and assessment are also crucial. Simulators allow users to practice tasks under conditions resembling real-life scenarios. Simulators can be compared with traditional surgical training methods for different reasons. For example, intraoperative bleeding may occasionally show up not only visibly on the screen but also by shaking the trocars erratically. Without haptics, training on virtual simulators can cause one's pulling and pushing forces, which are frequently greater than what the tissue needs, to be distorted. A good method of simulation training is using virtual reality simulators with haptics and simulated patients. The availability of these facilities is limited, though, and a typical session might include an exercise involving stacking sugar cubes and box trainers. The degree of expertise or competency is one area that needs clarification as medical education transitions to a competency-based paradigm. The article aims to provide an overview of simulation, methods of simulation training, and the key role and importance of surgical simulation in improving skills in surgical residents.
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spelling pubmed-105497792023-10-05 Exploring the Role of Simulation Training in Improving Surgical Skills Among Residents: A Narrative Review Cardoso, Swizel Ann Suyambu, Jenisha Iqbal, Javed Cortes Jaimes, Diana Carolina Amin, Aamir Sikto, Jarin Tasnim Valderrama, Melissa Aulakh, Simranjit Singh Ramana, Venkata Shaukat, Behram Patel, Tirath Cureus Medical Education The role of simulation in medical education is crucial to the development of surgeons' skills. Surgical simulation can be used to improve surgical skills in a secure and risk-free environment. Animal models, simulated patients, virtual reality, and mannequins are some types of surgical simulation. As a result, feedback encourages students to reflect on their strengths and weaknesses, enabling them to focus on improvement. Healthcare simulation is a strong educational instrument, and the main goal of this is to give the students an opportunity to do a practical application of what they have learned through theory. Before taking it to the patients, they will already have certain tools they have previously acquired during the practice. This makes it easier for students to identify the knowledge gaps that they must fill to improve patient outcomes. Moreover, simulation brings a wonderful opportunity for students to acquire skills, gain confidence, and experience success before working with real patients, especially when their clinical exposure is limited. The use of simulation to teach technical skills to surgical trainees has become more prevalent. The cost of setting up a simulation lab ranges from $100,000 to $300,000. There are several ways to evaluate the effectiveness of simulation-based surgical training. Repetitive surgical simulation training can improve speed and fluidity in general surgical skills in comparison to conventional training. Few previous studies compared learners who received structured simulation training to a group of trainees who did not receive any simulation training in single-center randomized control research. Significantly faster and less time-consuming skill proficiency was noticeable in simulated trainees. Despite being anxious in the operating room for the first time, simulated trainees completed the surgery on time, demonstrating the effectiveness of surgical simulation training. Traditional surgical training involves senior-surgeon supervision in the operating room. In simulation-based training, the trainees have full control over clinical scenarios and settings; however, guidance and assessment are also crucial. Simulators allow users to practice tasks under conditions resembling real-life scenarios. Simulators can be compared with traditional surgical training methods for different reasons. For example, intraoperative bleeding may occasionally show up not only visibly on the screen but also by shaking the trocars erratically. Without haptics, training on virtual simulators can cause one's pulling and pushing forces, which are frequently greater than what the tissue needs, to be distorted. A good method of simulation training is using virtual reality simulators with haptics and simulated patients. The availability of these facilities is limited, though, and a typical session might include an exercise involving stacking sugar cubes and box trainers. The degree of expertise or competency is one area that needs clarification as medical education transitions to a competency-based paradigm. The article aims to provide an overview of simulation, methods of simulation training, and the key role and importance of surgical simulation in improving skills in surgical residents. Cureus 2023-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC10549779/ /pubmed/37799263 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.44654 Text en Copyright © 2023, Cardoso et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Iqbal, Javed
Cortes Jaimes, Diana Carolina
Amin, Aamir
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Valderrama, Melissa
Aulakh, Simranjit Singh
Ramana, Venkata
Shaukat, Behram
Patel, Tirath
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